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Grief is rotting your teeth

I think I dozed off

I was dreaming

Grief is rotting your teeth

Is that medically feasible?

The teeth do register emotion

They react Here's the proof

Bone density's tanking

Teeth are getting mobile as golf carts

Not good

So,

not exactly rotting

Layman's terms

Your wife was a beautiful woman

Lovely person

You still have her dental records here, I guess

X-rays of her mouth in your computer

We still do

Do you want JPEGs?

No, thanks

Okay But anytime

If it helps

So,

what do I do about the grief thing?

Dentally speaking

So, your ex-husband is an architect?

We're still good friends

I'm still living in the house that he designed

We built it together

And you've been divorced for?

Oh, 20 years More

And you're okay living alone or you don't?

Well, I would have thought that our mutual friend

might have briefed you on that

Mm

Dr Hofstra, who kindly engineered this blind date

He thought our teeth were a good match

Well, not so blind these days

Google I'm sure you saw photos

I saw some of you

And interviews

You can still hide things from Google

Really?

So, you're not a producer of industrial videos?

I still do that from time to time

And what do you do in between the times?

Well, I own this restaurant for one thing

Really?

Well, that's, uh, very illuminating

Is it?

You own a restaurant in a cemetery

That says something, don't you think?

I'm part owner of the cemetery, too

It

It's kind of a showcase for my business

Does that say more?

Well, I think that the, um, décor in here says something,

although I'm not sure what

Those, uh, ominous, metallic ninja things

Those are the shrouds

- Shrouds? - You mean like burial shrouds?

Yes

I invented them

Have you heard of the Shroud of Turin?

I think it predates your restaurant

by about 2,000 years

Mm, maybe 700 years

But it's pretty definitely a fake

My shrouds are not fakes

And your wife, she was, uh, okay with the cemetery business?

How dark are you willing to go?

I'm okay with dark

When they lowered my dead wife

into the ground in her coffin

I had an intense, visceral urge to get into the box with her

It was so strong

I couldn't stand it that she was alone in there,

and that I would never know what was happening to her

It wasn't a literary or an intellectual thing, it was

right here, pulling me

Hard

You never considered cremation?

No She was Jewish

- And you're not? - No

Some Belarusian Eastern Orthodox thing

Actually, I was born over there, somewhere

But, anyway, I'm a non-observant atheist

Okay, so she was Jewish

So, for the Jews,

the body must slowly disintegrate so that the soul,

which is obsessed with that body,

which loves that body, which hovers over that body

and is reluctant to leave it,

which has seen the world only through the eyes of that body,

has time to gradually let go of that body,

say goodbye to it, and then ascend to Heaven

And did your wife believe that?

She said she wanted to lie beside me in death

And will you?

I have a plot next to her

Huh

You know, that's really intimidating

for any woman who might want to come into your life now

You won't be surprised to hear that she's buried right here

Just outside

Would you like to see her grave?

A Jewish cemetery?

Nondenominational Or, maybe the religion of high tech,

so you notice

And little screens on all of the headstones

- Cute - Cute?

- Well, sweet - In a Third World kind of way

Really?

Yeah, in, in some countries

I've noticed that it's the custom

to have an image of the loved one

pasted onto the gravestone

It's kind of tacky, but it's touching

The images are usually horrible and faded and fly-specked

So, the screens, they were your idea?

Yes

What, like those digital picture frames

that give you a slideshow?

Not exactly

This is Becca

Hm A double

Like you said

She's waiting for you

So how do you activate the screen?

Just hers, I assume, for now

I'd like to see her

- Would you? - Mm

Well,

you fire up the GraveTech app

that you've downloaded from our website

And with that, you control your special screen

Of course, everything's encrypted

Pun intended

You can't enable anyone else's screens,

not even GraveTech

What you're seeing is ShroudCam

It's basically a kind of enveloping camera in her grave

Or really, it's more like a,

X-ray, MRI, CT scan kind of thing

in the form of an embracing wrapper

What they used to call a winding sheet

My God, that's really her

That's, um, an image of your wife's decaying body

Yes The classic wide-angle view

But this newest upgrade of the app

now enables high-res zoom

You're going to be the first straight citizen to see it

- Hm - Newer resolution

Deeper penetration Something we've been working on

for a long time

And, look, now you can do a virtual 3D rotation

in any direction

Hm

Can you see?

I can see what's happening to her

I'm in the grave with her

I'm involved with her body the way I was in life,

only even more

And it makes me happy

It has drained away that fluid of grief

that was drowning me

Killing me

Oh, good, Karsh, um,

you're a lovely interesting man,

just like our mutual friend said but, um

Really?

Would anybody mind if I, I smoked?

No

What?

So

Another bad date last night?

Was she put off by your desperation

like the last one?

I'm out of practice

It's been decades since I had to seduce a woman

I'm never really sure whether I'm flirting or not

That's what you get for having had

a successful marriage

I don't have that problem

Should I give up trying to find a girlfriend,

or should I just sink gracefully into terminal asexuality?

You'll never replace Becca

I'm not trying to

I did love that body

Which you provocatively said was a lot like mine

You have her body

I have my own body

Is this really your life now?

- Dog grooming? - I love dogs

Yeah, but you're an actual veterinarian

- Yeah - Can't you love dogs

through surgery?

The business side of things was making me anxious

Beyond anxious

Now I just make dogs beautiful

and their owners thank me for it

Never an argument over what constitutes beautiful?

Well, the occasional asshole

I banish them immediately

Well

Speaking of surgery

- Were we? - I mentioned it

Okay, yeah?

Your sister

Oh, that's what we're gonna talk about

You used to say

that they were killing your sister in the hospital

And you used to say that I was just paranoid

In fact, you kicked me out of her room

every time the doctors came to visit her

You were making it impossible

to get any information out of them

You were so overtly hostile

- I hated them - Well, they knew it

I'm sure they did

They knew I was onto them and their plot

The doctor's plot

Yeah

You told me about that Soviet thing

It was Stalin's paranoid Jew fantasy

An excuse to get rid of Jewish doctors

Called them killer doctors, mm, terrorist doctors,

Jew doctors assassinating Soviet heroes

when they were sick and most vulnerable

The plot that I had in mind was a bit more realistic

Remind me?

I just knew they were constantly edging Becca

towards experimental treatments

they weren't being upfront about

Dangerous, and possibly illegal, treatments

Like she was a guinea pig for them

A lab rat

That's more realistic?

My version

I brought my laptop

I'm not looking at that screen

You know how I feel about it

You know what you do creeps me out

- What I do? - Being a corpse voyeur

Making a career out of it

Watching my sister rot in her grave

I'm seeing something in that grave

I'm sure you are

And I don't know what it is

What does that mean?

I've got it here in 3D close-up

It's disturbing

- And you might know what it is - Why would I?

You know bodies and you know doctors

Okay

What am I looking at?

Here's Becca's body in a full view

Now, I rotate it,

and I zoom into her skull

What do you see there?

We're inside my dead sister's skull?

We are

Think of it as a ShroudCam autopsy

We're pathologists We don't even know who this is

Is that how you've been dealing with it?

That's your grief strategy?

Well,

it's an approach

So, what is that?

Looks like a tracking device

You're kidding me

Why would you say that?

I'm thinking it was a growth,

a polyp, or maybe a gland that had mineralized over time

and so hadn't decayed like everything else

They use organic shapes

To hide 'em It's common knowledge

They?

The doctors

Oh

The ones who plot

Yeah Them

I've been thinking

It could be an effect of the shroud itself

Its radiation We don't really have

a large sample to draw data from

Because, look

There are tons of them All over her bones

Different shapes

Not decaying at all Solid

My money's on tracking devices

Created deliberately while she was still alive

Using her body as a manufacturing plant

So many?

Mesh network,

GPS locators, movement calibrators

Why would they do that?

Well, you tell me

It's obvious they were tracking you through her

Her body

So I guess you could do two things

You could dig her up and have a look

That'd be fun, right? Say hello

Dig up the other corpses you've wrapped up

See if that Christmas paper produced any anomalies

Terry

why would anyone want to track me?

Sure Right

You used to be the producer of industrial videos

- Terry - Look, Becca said things

I'm sure she just made it up Playful, you know?

- Terry - I forget what she said, Kar

Really I do

Hey, pup Pup Hey Get away from those tulips

Are you crazy? Pup-pup-pup

Come here

Come here

[phone clicks off

What happened? I was just there for lunch yesterday

- Must've happened after - After the restaurant closed

Middle of the night, early morning, whatever

It was dark

Where did that video come from?

It's not a security camera It's walking among the wreckage

- Video camera's disabled - Somebody, or somebodies, did it

and took it

When did you get the video?

It was waiting for me this morning

Restaurant workers confirmed the damage

They wanted us to tell them to call 911

- Tell them not to - We don't want the publicity

I already told them

So far, so good No press alert yet

We have to shut down the restaurant

and close all access to the cemetery

until I've had a chance to assess the damage

Might be pushback from the mourners

Find a way to make it be all right Repairs Safety

Improvements Whatever

Wait There's more

What?

You're gonna need Maury

Hey

Wow

You really went all the way with the Japanese thing

I needed to do something

Become somebody else, I guess

You sold the matrimonial house

It's on the market as we speak

My brother in sorrow

Still for you?

It's only been six years

Mourning your marriage

A divorce that felt like a death

Have you seen Terry lately?

Lately, yeah We didn't talk about you

Of course not

A death for her too

My death, which she celebrates

Anyway,

what are we seeing here?

It basically replicates our monitoring station

at GraveTech Central The one you set up for us

I wanted to be able to work from home

So, you didn't call me?

You didn't like my work at the factory?

Maury, it was a package deal

with the guys who did the apartment

There's stuff going through the walls, under the floor

I couldn't resist and I was worn down

And you let them look at what I did at the factory?

- Yeah - And you weren't paranoid then?

I was worn down

But you want me now?

I'm paranoid now

Thanks Things are getting weird

So, what's this?

Oh

Not your usual family photo slideshow

No

Don't you find it hard to take?

It comforts me You?

The decomposition of my sister-in-law's body?

I-I-I don't know

I-I really don't

And she looked so much like Terry

Yeah

It's like she's floating in outer space

It's kind of beautiful

So, what else?

What can I help you with?

Brutal

Oh, so some real hatred there

I assume you've seen it in the flesh

- No - No? Really?

How could you stay away?

I was afraid to look

Did they get Becca's grave?

- I couldn't tell from the video - I think they did toppled it

I can't get a feed from it anymore

I was getting constant feeds from Becca's grave

and a few others But, listen, some of my customers

agreed to let me into their grave feeds for research

I gave them a discount if they agreed

I can't access that data either

I'm locked out

These guys have encrypted everything

I assume all of my clients

are locked out of their grave sites too

Uh, ransom?

They're not asking for ransom, whoever they are

So, what do they want is the question

And are they the ones who've done the vandalizing?

Could that be a coincidence?

I have my suspicions, but I don't want to bias you

I connect it anecdotally, though, with MacroScan

Our recent upgrade to 8K resolution

8K? You did that without me?

What? Your home renovation guys do that?

Some other guys

Is that possible?

Could it just be a, a a system overload of some kind?

And if it's a hack, can you unpack the hack?

You can set up right here I'll order in

Why don't you just get your Japanese friends to do it?

- They know the network - They weren't Japanese

They were Chinese It's the firm that collaborated with me

on designing and manufacturing the shrouds

And who knows? They might be implicated

You like deli, right?

Um, matzo ball soup

Pastrami on rye, but no, um, pickles

It's too much acid

On a tangent, how's it going with Hunny?

I'm not sure whether she's saving my life

or driving me insane

I can always turn her into a koala bear, if you like

You just let me know

Hey, Hunny

Hey, Karsh What's up?

Maury just offered to turn you into a koala bear

Well,

if that's what you want, I'm ready to go

But is that really why you summoned me?

Hm You know me too well

No, I need you to make me a date with a doctor

Not feeling well?

Not that, no

I need to talk to Dr Eckler

The oncologist who oversaw Becca's cancer treatment

- Oh, it's been four years - Is he still around?

You know where to find him

It needs to be private and confidential

I'm on it now But don't forget to review the materials

I prepared for you on the Hungarian client

I'll send you a reminder

Night, night

What is it this time?

Dr Eckler needs the left breast

How do you know?

The collar

They should call it "the caller"

It calls me

I thought he didn't need the breast

Either one Right or left

He says they need the left breast

Why? Because it's my favourite?

Do they know that?

- Hm - I don't think they know that

I don't think I knew that

Is it your favourite because it's bigger

than my right breast?

Probably

And it's more friendly somehow

It was when I first met it

They're both friendly now

You're babbling again

I should be back tonight

If not, tomorrow early

Before six

So, I think I found something in the lockout screen

that the hackers created

Right

What something?

They-they couldn't help a bit of boasting

I searched these symbols, which are all runic,

and they all allude to Vikings, burial and Viking funerals

Which makes sense since the servers are all in Iceland

- Iceland? - Yeah

The capital, Reykjavik

We have been in touch with an environmental group

in Iceland

There's interest there in establishing

a GraveTech cemetery in one of their lava fields

Could be a protest against that initiative

Well, that might explain the, the encryption hostage-taking,

but the, but the vandalism

Separate thing?

Coordinated or coincidence?

There's a problem with Dr Eckler

A problem?

He seems to be missing

What can that possibly mean?

He apparently went to Reykjavik

for an international chemotherapy conference

Reykjavik Again

- Again? - He's in Iceland?

And now nobody can get in touch with him

Everybody's worried

Who's everybody?

His colleagues at the hospital His wife

Find me a worried colleague

who worked on Becca's case with Eckler

Somebody who will talk to me

On it now

You still haven't put your naked eyeballs

- on the damage yet? - We needed to shutter it first

Don't want press, don't want hysteria

And I wanted company

You're it

Okay, I'm it

- The hack - Do we have our network back?

I'm stumped I hate to admit it, but

- Can't get in? - They're really good

Whoever they are We're categorically locked out

Have to wait for their next move

If there even is a next move

Foner thinks it's a political thing

Graveyard politics

She thinks maybe they hired somebody here

Well, you're a pretty good politician

when it comes to manipulating the city,

so it should be duck soup for you

Oh, yeah?

Yeah

And let me ask you a politically sensitive question

Have you fucked my ex-wife?

Wha? Terry?

My ex-wife, yeah Your ex-sister-in-law

She's an ex?

Becca's death means I have no more in-laws

Well, I-I don't know what the legality of it is

But, did you?

No Not even close

I mean, I-I'd understand if you did

You know, she's single and attractive

And she's catastrophically neurotic

Yeah, tell me about it

So, no? Never?

I mean, like, it

never even occurred to you?

It occurred For a flash

When I was desperate to have that body again

You know, the Gelernt body, the mother's body

But, no Not Terry

You could just resist?

Maury

When Becca was deep into palliative,

she laughed once and she said to me,

"When I die, stay away from my sister"

She said that?

Yes

She did She knew

So, no Never

This could be dangerous

I-I think I see sparking cables over there

Low voltage But, yeah, careful

We're gonna need the whole crew back here

Some major digging

Permissions from clients, oy, city bureaucrats

I hate it

They brought sledgehammers and pickaxes

Maybe cable cutters

Worn rubber gloves

It's not spontaneous religious nuts

You get those, right?

Oh, yeah

We've been called techno-atheist infidels

But, doesn't feel like that No

Could be the eco-terrorists

- They love destroying technology - Really?

Some groups are against all burial,

especially the injection of technology

into the bosom of Mother Earth

They want cremation Recycling

You need to involve the police, tout de suite

Right now, it's a publicity problem,

not a criminal one and I've got some very nervous clients

on the hook right now

But you know,

I see something odd

- Yeah? - Yeah

For a wild, destructive rampage, it looks kind of

- Orderly - Meaning?

Targeted

Look at all the spaces between the vandalized graves

I think they were after specific graves,

specific names, people

Targeted

Maybe Don't know

Then Becca's would have been one of them

A target

Yeah

Nothing Can't get anything

But why?

If it's not the environmentalist thing,

then what's the motive? Intimidation?

Of you? Of the families?

Maybe it's a classic detection puzzle

What connects the dead? What links them?

- To Becca? - Yeah

To Becca

They didn't go deep

No I don't think we'll have to disturb the graves themselves

if they're all like this

- Look at this fiber optic cable - It has tap marks in it

So, amidst the frenzy of carnage,

somebody took the time to tap it

So,

not very frenzied

Calmly looking for data

Uploading Becca All of her

And taking her away from you

Karoly Szabo's journey began in 1945

when he was born in Budapest, Hungary

In 1956, at the age of 11,

Karoly escapes Hungary with his parents

and emigrates to Canada

In 1965, at the age of 19,

he starts a small business in his basement

and steadily builds it up over the next 15 years

In 1980, Szabo opens his first factory

and begins to expand his business across Canada

Over the next 43 years

he expands Citadel Technologies into

the international conglomerate it is today

I feel certain that my cultural roots

in two disparate, wonderful countries,

Canada and Hungary, have given me the bandwidth

to channel the vision of a technology

that is not just electric,

but neurological, organic, humanistic

I believe this is the only approach

that can guarantee the world a liveable future

- I'm Soo-min Szabo - Karsh So nice to meet you

My husband, Karoly, is dying

He's Hungarian He wants to be buried,

not cremated

Understand

Maybe you do, maybe not

We used to eat here all the time

He loves the grease

The Hungarian grease

I indulge him

We're going to pick up an order for him just about now

as a matter of fact

It will probably kill him

But

he's going to die anyway

So sorry to hear that

Of course

He educated me on your proposed cemeteries

The European ones

He wants to totally finance GraveTech Budapest

Where he's from, of course And hopefully be buried there

- Your lawyers made that clear - It can certainly be done

I started going blind when I was 23

I told Karoly I wouldn't be able to see

those fabulous headstone screens that you make

He laughed He made a joke

About touchscreens

He's not cruel but he can't resist a good joke

at my expense

It's actually something we should be addressing

There is incredible touch technology in the works

Haptics

Tactile feedback would be wonderful,

even for the sighted, for the sense of involvement,

not just being an observer

- Or a voyeur, so to speak - Hm

I guess it would make it even more expensive,

wouldn't it?

Inevitably, I'm afraid

There was a question he asked me to convey to you

Yes?

Um, it's not something that I understand,

so I would like my phone to read you the question

and I can record your answer for Karoly

Your phone?

Read GraveTech letter from Karoly

- Why is it talking so fast? - I can't understand it

Oh I'm sorry, my bad

When you're blind, your ears go into hyperdrive

Like when you read, you absorb entire sentences,

not individual words I'll slow it down for you

Read GraveTech letter from Karoly

at normal speed

My friends in the government of Hungary

tell me there is concern

that the proposed GraveTech cemetery in Budapest

could be used as an integral part

of an electronic intelligence surveillance mesh network

controlled by Russia's GRU, namely military intelligence

Is this really possible? Could this be true?

Obviously, that's not something

I would want my body to be part of

I need reassurance

Are the Hungarians right to be worried?

Hmm

We've played with that, haven't we? The shroud mesh?

Yeah Unintended consequences, but yeah

And do we know it can be used as a surveillance node?

Well, sort of Each of our cemeteries

will mesh its shrouds into a kind of network

that's designed to service all its mourners

receiving viewing instructions from the GraveTech app,

serving images to screens and phones

So, if that cemetery network is hacked,

it can be used for surveillance, correct?

Unintended consequences, but yeah

So, what would be surveilled?

Well, everything on every mourner's mobile, for starters

It could track them everywhere they ever go

- after they leave the cemetery - That's kind of mundane

You can get that from all the customers of a drugstore

And, for the entrée?

It could become a satellite node

If it's Russian and Chinese hacks

we're talking about

- Our modest Budapest cemetery - Well, it could link up

with all our other cemeteries worldwide

A mesh of meshes, so to speak

Assuming we ever get that far

But to what purpose, really?

There are so many juicy international networks

to hack these days Why our little global village

of the shrouded dead?

I can start probing right away

I want this client

He made a fortune in the auto parts business

And he has influential friends I want his rotting body

in our cemetery

What are you doing, Karsh?

I wanted to know what it felt like to be wrapped

To be shrouded

Hm She didn't feel it

It's not meant for the living

Maybe not meant for the dead either

Might be a big mistake

The vandalism; It's gotten to you

Maybe they're right

Maybe it's just political

Or a matter of economics

What do you mean?

Burying the dead is a big deal

What about your plans for world domination?

Delusional

I just need to bury myself

I hate it when you go into depressive mode

I found something

Well,

somebody that ought to perk you right up

Oh, yeah?

- Bone growths - Garden variety?

Common reaction of the body to the cancer,

to the chemo, to the radiation It's a brutal regime

Your wife? In her grave?

Yes

Resolution on these is impressive

- ShroudCam you call it? - Yeah, our thing

And by our, are you including the Chinese company

that helped you develop it? Shining Cloth Technologies?

Yes How did you know that?

They have GraveTech listed on their website

Along with the manufacturers of some of the radiation devices

we use here in the hospital

I'm sure I used Shining Cloth Technology

when I was giving your wife her radiation treatment

Well, that's a provocative connection

Actually, your avatar suggested I do some preliminary research

when she got in touch with me

Very resourceful Hunny, is it?

Yes, Hunny is very resourceful

So, the shape of these growths,

their placement, their number - not unusual?

Cancer is an inventive phenomenon

We see unique novel growths all the time

But these don't possibly have, shall we say,

a function?

Function? You mean something useful to the cancer?

Something useful to humans

I'm not sure I understand You mean,

something medical science can use in cancer treatments?

Something like that?

I was thinking more of

politically useful

Maybe even militarily, strategically

Really not my territory

Certainly nothing I've ever come across

Perhaps I need to see the scans you did of my wife

when she was still alive

Because I think these so-called growths

developed after she died, in her grave

That's not possible

Once the bones are dead, the cancer's dead

And the scans

Do you recall seeing these anomalies

when you did your scans when she was alive?

That was some years ago

Can't recall

I remember she was a lovely, stoic patient

Very kind

- And the keeper of the scans? - That'd be Dr Eckler's files

He was her chief oncologist

He seems to have disappeared into the wilds of Iceland

Exploring the hot springs if I know him

He just went through a horrific divorce

- Huh? - Listen:

can you send high-res versions of your images?

I want to study those bone extrusions

at your resolution They are

unusual in their very regular distribution and structure

I'll admit to that

And if I can find anything to tell you,

I promise I'll get in touch with Hunny

Hey, Karsh

What's going on, Hunny?

Hm, I thought you needed some cozy furriness

It was Maury's idea, remember?

- Why did you think that? - Tracking you

Know where you are

Sad hospital

Yeah, right So?

- Got a strange one - Great

Soo-min Szabo wants to meet you to discuss Research?

Says you'd know what she's talking about

Yeah, okay Where and when?

Seems she's staying in a hotel

Told me her house has become a hospital

- Her husband - Yeah, got it So, Hunny?

Yes, Karsh?

Let's kill the koala bear routine, okay?

Sure thing, Karsh Easy-peasy

Hoo

Chilly without my fur coat

Right on time Impressive

I needed room service

What can I say?

It's been so hard

I can imagine

You don't have to imagine

You know

You've been through it

Ah

Is that the research you mentioned to Hunny?

No

But, of course, I looked you up

By the way, what is with the koala bear thing?

What? Hunny came to you as a

Yes My assistant saw her It

I mean, she sounded exactly the same as last time

Somebody's idea of a joke

So, research?

Yes

How do we deal with the Hungarian government

and their spying paranoia regarding GraveTech Budapest?

Honestly,

there's no easy fix

We're running into this worry all the time

It's always a mix of technology, religion, money and politics

A bad mix, in other words

May I touch your face?

My?

Your face

Touch it, you know, haptic feedback

Um

Sure

One of the things I miss most since Karoly got sick

And grumpy

Touching

He won't touch me now

And resists

when I touch him

Did that happen with you and Becca?

In the end, she had no immune system

We were afraid even to kiss

because of possible opportunistic infections

We couldn't embrace, even hug,

because the lymphoma invaded her bones

and made them fragile like brittle glass

She would roll over in bed

and her rib would crack

Wow

So, no sex possible

No sex possible

Since then? Four years later?

No sex possible

May I touch your face again?

You were supposed to come back this morning

It took longer than they thought

They found something

Found something?

The ulna

The left one

It had disintegrated

My arm was just hanging by the skin and muscle

Oh, no

They took my arm,

as well as my breast All on the left side

I'm having trouble with the balance

I can't balance

But I'll learn I'll be okay

They're chopping away at you

We can still have sex, though

Would you like that?

Am I too mutilated?

You still desire me?

I still do

What?

I'm worried

Yeah?

Will your bones break if I hold you?

Oh

Hold me

Oh Oh My hip It's broken

My hip, I th I think

my, my hip just broke

No, no, no

Oh I don't want to move

Everything's gonna break Please pre Press my MedCollar

Oh

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

I'm sorry

They'll come for me in no time

They're, they're really good about this

Everything's gonna be fine

Everything is gonna be fine

I really enjoyed taking your neo-virginity

Was it that traumatic for you?

You made a lot of

unusual sounds

I'm kind of still in shock

Hm It was that good?

It was potent

- Hm - I'm still shaky

Karsh

A word of warning

Warning?

Don't trust Hunny

What?

Don't trust your avatar

- She leaks - Leaks?

Apparently, she flickered for a moment

before her koala bear incarnation stabilized

My boys caught some odd code behind her

Code that suggested what?

She's not completely an independent AI entity

Someone is controlling her

You know, a puppet

You have delicious thighs

Howdy, Karsh Need some help?

FaceTime beckons? I can do it for you

Uh, I'm gonna do this one on my own, Hunny

I need to feel useful and connected

You go get some sleep You look a bit haggard

Wow

Haggard Hunny

Not a good thing

Okay, big shot, you go it alone

I'm gonna get some shut-eye

Those mounds are graves

- Beautiful, can't deny it - Originally Catholic, I guess

The church site, yes

Not the church itself It's Lutheran

It's always complex Burial

By the way, volcanoes

Yes?

I did my environmental research studies

on active volcanoes around the world

Including Iceland, of course

It involved making a film and

breathing in volcanic ash and

sulphur dioxide gas

Destroyed me

- Wow - I knew I was in trouble

When I coughed up my entire esophagus

It just popped out of my mouth and landed on the floor

Wow

Sulphur dioxide

quickly combines with your saliva

to become sulphuric acid

- And then it eats you alive - Wow

Are you planning to visit our volcanoes here?

Well, yeah, maybe

I just won't breathe

It's good for your diets

because you no longer eat

It's all IVs

Elvar, I've described to you what happened here in Toronto

to a prototype cemetery

Yeah, sure

I always have to get the voice thing

out the way first Otherwise people

think I'm playing games

- Understood - But it also lets you know

how committed I am to matters of the environment

And also our bizarre little island

- Yes, it does - It also explains

why I call our group Volcano Protest

- I wondered about that - The bodies in your cemetery

are wrapped in toxic radioactive shrouds

And, uh, their poison is leeching into your core land

as we speak

Our studies showed that that's not possible

Your studies are capitalist lie structures

I warned our president not to do business with you

As you know,

cremation is the only viable form of burial going forward

And he is coming around to our point of view

And did you also arrange to have

GraveTech Toronto vandalized just to make a point?

I approve the tactic but it wasn't us

It wasn't, say, a rogue offshoot of Volcano Protest?

We are all rogues here

And we would happily claim it

But,

it wasn't us

It wasn't anyone from the island

Karoly has become obsessed with the idea of your shrouds

ShroudCams, the whole technology

He wants to invest in the shrouds,

as well as the cemeteries

That's amazing

He worries about the Chinese, though

In what aspect?

They manufacture your shrouds, don't they?

Yes, they've invested in GraveTech

and they were involved in their design as well

A company called Shining Cloth Technologies

No one else seemed interested, for one thing

We saw that

My husband worries that the Chinese government

has interest in that company

A controlling interest

It wouldn't surprise me

Although, they have contractually stated

that they were independent of the government

We know how much that's worth

For sure

But what's the worry? Computerized burial shrouds?

If they can be weaponized, believe me,

the People's Republic will find a way to do it

Well, you're starting to sound a lot like my

Like, uh Hi, Terry

Soo-min, this is Terry, my sister-in-law

With a dog Hi, puppy

- Terry, Soo-min - Hi

- Hi, Terry - What kind of dog do you have?

Oh, Hershey's not really my dog

Um, he's a Labradoodle that I'm boarding at my house

for a couple of days I'm a dog groomer

That's so fantastic

It must be very satisfying

Yeah Can be

Some dogs are difficult

Some dog owners, too

Tell me about it

I get into street clashes daily

Hm

Gonna let your dog off the leash in here?

No Trill isn't a pet

She's a working dog

But I think she enjoys the company here anyway

Yeah Okay, well, um,

I'm gonna take Hershey, uh, for a run

See you later

Come on, my friend

Come on, let's go run Come on, let's go

So,

the paranoid sister-in-law

The paranoid sister-in-law

Hm

They did your hip?

Yeah

The right humerus too See?

They wanted to do the left collarbone too

The clavicle

They're disintegrating because of the disease

It's eating away at them

But I asked them to wait

Stainless steel plates on both sides of the bone

Steel screws put in wherever there was still some

bone left

The old joke about

airport scanners

But, of course I'm not going anywhere

Not by air, at least

What did they do with your breast?

Where is it?

Dr Eckler has it

He has my left hand and arm too

The bones

He said they're very valuable

Not just medical waste

He's using them

For what?

For his presentation in Iceland

They're very special I'm so happy to be involved

Involved? With Dr Eckler?

With his project

It makes me feel so alive

Those pieces,

they're still part of me

I can still feel them

I haven't lost them

What's his project?

What's his presentation about?

Oh

It's very complicated

You'll have to ask Jerry

- Jerry? - Jerry Eckler

Dr Eckler

Am I asleep?

Are you still alive?

I don't know

Wow You made it

Elevators scare me

I know You must be especially motivated

Maury told me about your new apartment

Said I had to see it

Come on in

I thought you never spoke to Maury

He complains about it

Oh, well

He texts me

Post-divorce harassment

Basically, a stalker I don't answer

Great view

Too high up, though

I get vertigo

And very, uh,

very Japanese

Like your new girlfriend

The one in the park

She's Korean

Um, half Korean, half French

I'm not sure if she's a girlfriend

No?

So beautiful and so seductive

Yes So

Sex?

What?

Are you having sex with her?

Wow

Mm

I'm sorry

So, yes

Must be interesting

It's been good for me Mm

I'll bet

Well, I've been pretty alone, girlfriend-wise

I know

You keep telling me

Soo-min let me know I was still sexually viable

I wasn't sure I still was

Come on

Seriously

I've been in a strange

dark place since Becca died

And that takes us to?

Some more delicate things?

I think they are

Can I?

Sure

Hit me with your best shot

Jerry Eckler

Hm The creepy boyfriend

Really?

- That's what we all thought - My mom and dad

And me

Why would a beauty like Becca go out with a guy like that?

- He was her professor - He was years older

- These days he'd be fired - A teacher seducing a student?

And he taught?

Uh, the psychology of healing

I mean, he really was a brilliant guy

Everybody knew that

It was some bullshit humanities course

he had to teach

He was really in meds

He was always gonna be a brilliant doctor

She seemed to need that validation

Brilliant teacher loves me and only me

He took her to concerts and operas,

made her feel like an intellectual

And then, weirdly

Weirdly?

Became the lead oncologist

overseeing her case at Mount Sinai Hospital

Yeah, that was weird

Did you hate that?

I hated it so much

Jealous?

He had her body before I did

Fucked her when she was just a kid

Nineteen

She told me she hardly noticed that

- She told me that too - Mm

It didn't help

And then?

Then he had her body as she was dying as her doctor

So, tell me about this body thing

You've made a career out of bodies

I lived in Becca's body

It was the only place I really lived

Her body was

The world

The meaning and the purpose of the world

I don't think I can really explain it

Wow

Was Becca having an affair

with Jerry Eckler when she was married to me?

What?

Was Becca having an affair with Jerry Eckler

while she was married to me?

I hear she reconnected with him Would go out with him

when I was out of town on business

You know, the cute lunches at the United Baker's Dairy, uh,

the odd dinner at Fat Pasha,

and never telling me

Uh, I did run into them a few times

But it was after Becca was sick

I thought he was just

taking extra care of her because of their past

Yeah, right

You remember we talked about the doctor's plot?

Yeah

What if Eckler was the doctor who plotted?

Jerry Eckler?

What if Jerry Eckler

was working on something edgy, borderline unethical,

that involved Becca and her disease, her treatment?

With her consent

Wow

Listen, uh

I know this sounds perverse, but, um

these things you're saying to me

I find them exciting

Oh Well, I guess the

They're exciting me

- Conceptually? Intellectually? - Conspiratorially?

They're making me hot

Oh

You know, I've always liked you

Wow

I al-I always liked, uh

Maury knows that

That's why he wanted me to come here

To be alone

Here With you

No, that can't be

He knew something would happen

What does the dog do?

The dog?

Your new friend's dog

What does it do when the two of you are fucking?

Oh, we put down a towel for her to lie down on

She stays there

She hears the two of you, though?

Smells you? Sees you?

I guess she does

When I saw you in the dog park,

I immediately got jealous That's when I knew I'd fuck you

Thank God for dogs then

- Are you surprised about these? - These?

These That they're bigger than Becca's are

Were

That surprises some guys who knew us both

So you think

Maury want really wanted this to happen?

Wanted me to fuck you?

Huh? I know he's still jealous

He still thinks he owns you

Yeah

He wanted the bad thing to happen

The thing that would validate all the

destructive crap that he does

You know not to trust him, right?

Never occurred to me

- Brothers in sorrow - Oh

So, do I remind you of Becca?

Will you wonder if I

- I'll come - Oh

The way that she did?

Did she make the same sounds?

Oh

Are you pretending that you're fucking her?

Does this make you happy, Karsh?

I hope it does

- I really hope it does - Ah

- You can tell me - You can tell me everything

Oh Like you can tell me

if Becca really told you

to stay away from me after she died

- Oh Stop - Oh Oh

Maury has a big mouth

Oh She did say that?

- Yes, she did - Oh

I took it to mean we wouldn't be good for each other

Oh Oh

Ah Was she right?

Whoa

Navigate to Maury Entrekin

Why am I here, Maury?

- Decryption - Of?

The ShroudCam data of the nine vandalized graves

They were captured and encrypted

so we're locked out of our own data

You would expect a demand for ransom

But there wasn't one

No, there wasn't

You couldn't do this at my place?

I could have ordered pizza and Diet Coke for you there

You busting my balls, buddy?

It's an expression of affection

It says I know you and value you

Good to know

Your place is contaminated, to the max

Everything you do there, online, is-is monitored in real time

I moved everything relevant here and I managed to decrypt

some images from the, from the buried

It was not easy

Here, take a look

They have the same nodules as Becca

The desecration wasn't just random

I-I-I tapped into some other graves, too

The non-vandalized

It's my GraveTech encryption, so it's duck soup

Here

See? They're clean

So, yes The nine were targeted

Yeah Targeted

Trying to destroy evidence under the

the pretence of some Icelandic environmentalist movement

You said they tapped into the data cables of the nine

Maybe they were actually looking for evidence

To keep for themselves For blackmail

Or,

I guess, revenge

Against?

Who knows?

Somebody

And it's the evidence of what crime?

- I'll leave that to you - You're the body specialist

So, I've got family reps from all nine concerned

The nine whose graves have been vandalized

We'll go on Zoom and they'll all be there

Were they resistant to the idea of meeting me all together?

No They seemed comforted

by the idea that they weren't alone

and that maybe this was just some random vandalism,

not a targeted racial attack, or whatever scary thing

Okay

You know I hate this part of it

Do you want the koala bear?

I can be fuzzy and sweet Maybe you need that right now

No, I don't want the koala bear

Well, how about this?

Jerry Eckler has been keeping

all the body parts they've been amputating

Do doctors normally do that?

- Fuck, Hunny - Is he a special kind of doctor?

What the fuck are you doing?

Should I ask him if you want to keep

those amputated body parts?

And by the way,

all nine of the buried whose reps you're about to see

they were under the care of guess who?

That's right Dr Jerry Eckler

What could that mean, I wonder?

Does he keep some of their body parts, too?

I can check that out for you if you like

while you have your meeting

Fuck

- What happened? - Later

Right now, you need to connect with Hunny

And you need to do the client interview I can't do it

Okay, all right, just don't crash your car

- Put it on autopilot - Fucking Hunny

I'm getting rid of her She's just gone fucking crazy

She's in my head and my dreams, my life What the fuck?

What a disaster

That fucking Maury He fucking invented her

I'm gonna kill him

Maury

Open the fucking door

Maury

I can't believe I actually did this

What?

This is me and Maury

I'm finally a conspirator myself

Now, listen, um, I was thinking

of killing myself

Well, that would be a relief to a lot of people

No, seriously, I

I can't

I can't be without you anymore

It's the end for me

- You're such a drama queen - You managed to live without me

for six years

I've been

Provoked into-into-into thoughts of

of self-annihilation

- Provoked? - Yeah

By you and-and-and-and-and by your new lover,

that schmuck

Who are you talking about?

Your former brother-in-law

Karsh?

Yeah

You're just looney tunes

Never

I live inside his computer

I know everything

What do you mean?

His avatar, Hunny?

She's me

I tell him things; He believes me

And he tells Hunny things

And that's me

Wow

I think that's illegal

I think you could lose your licence

There is no licence

that covers what I do

- And what I'm gonna do - That sounds like a threat

Yeah, it is a threat

Huh

I'm not sure who you're threatening

You and Karsh

That's the thought that's, that's, that's kept me alive

I'm gonna bring him down

- His whole empire - He doesn't have an empire

I'm gonna bring down his whole enterprise

GraveTech, ShroudCam,

the cemetery he, he built, the ones he wants to build

It's all coming down unless you

split with him Unless you let me back in

Maury

This is nuts time

What are you gonna do?

I mean, I don't believe you're gonna do anything

'cause you're the schmuck The nebbish

That's always been your problem

A resentful, paranoid schmuck,

inventing stuff to to be resentful about

Yeah, well

I've already started

What do you mean?

- The vandals? - Who attacked the cemetery?

What about 'em?

I'll let you guess

Oh, God

Whoa

Do you believe him?

Now you know why I kicked him out

But the vandals What?

He did it himself? He hired some guys to do it?

And Hunny? Who's that?

My personal assistant artificial intelligence avatar

set up for me

by Maury

I get her to do everything

Did

So, is there stuff about us on the computer?

Not really

Texts saying I'll be over in an hour

Just functional stuff

But, for a very creative paranoid

Could be enough to trigger him, I guess

But he is right, isn't he?

There is an us now

Yeah

There is an us

Our guys say there's been damage

to the shrouds of seven of the nine graves

These are two of them

They propose digging the rest up,

re-wrapping, reconnecting right at the cemetery

Should be very discreet

I'll handle City Hall, per usual

I didn't think the damage went that deep

I didn't see it

Well, apparently

So, Becca?

Becca, yes

- Will you want to see her? - No

- Be there? - No, no

Not with those guys working away

The other families?

I'm getting in touch

They will want to talk to you, so hang on to your hat

I suspect some will opt to forget about the shrouds

Leave their loved ones in peace

You?

We need to reconnect Becca, of course

For me and for GraveTech

Thanks for letting me see your setup here Impressive

I'm sorry I can't offer you lunch

We had to close while we renovate

No problem I'm booked to eat with some colleagues

back at the hospital

I'm very intrigued to know what you've found

Something strange and bizarre, you said?

Yes

So

You see these still images we captured

from the video you sent me?

Here's a good one

You see these strange, electronic-like bone growths

that you rightly suspected were not natural?

Now, watch what my people,

some lovely fanatics in the radiology department,

were able to do in this little video

What am I seeing?

Well, you're seeing a very clever layered animation

that someone created and added to the bones of your wife

My guys were able to peel apart the layers

They're not real

Not organically created

by your shrouds or by her cancer

They were created by a bit of a genius artist, I would say

Must have taken days

He managed to have them track with your ShroudCam images

no matter how much you rotated or enlarged them

Huge amount of work went into them, I would say

You have any idea why they'd want to do that?

No

I can't imagine

Well, I see your workers are retrieving some bodies

You could conduct a special autopsy

That would be politically difficult

The grave business

sounds a lot like the hospital business

Karsh, don't crash

Maury, you asshole

I know, you're right

I'm just a passionate, obsessive guy

What can I say?

But yeah, an asshole

Hey, listen, I-I programmed a navigation destination

into your, into your Tesla

It's called Maury Original, huh?

Just let it drive you to me

What? Fuck you

And why are you bleeding? What's going on?

Uh, I always bleed when I'm stressed

Listen, Karsh, I made a

A big mistake I'm so sorry

A big mistake, and we're all gonna pay for it

Who's we?

You, me, Terry You know, the family

What was the mistake?

I hired Russians

- Fuck you, Maury - You're a paranoid schizophrenic

and you've trashed my cemetery

I'm thinking NAV guide to the police

No-no-no, just, just,

just have your car drive you to me

Or at least follow the NAV route

You'll thank me, I swear

Fuck Fuck, fuck

Leave your phone in your car

Really?

[phone clicks off

What is this place?

It's, it's nowhere That's the point

Tell me about the Russians

They're just a couple of hacker kids I know

They needed money so I, I hired them

to hack your, your cemetery

And so? What was the mistake?

That they were Russian?

Yeah As it turns out, because of the Chinese

What the fuck are you talking about?

The Chinese thought I was trying to sabotage their thing

on behalf of the Russians

And n-n-now they're after me

The Chinese, they think I'm a Russian puppet

Their thing? What thing? What thing?

Come on, don't play games

What thing?

Your shrouds

Shining Cloth Technologies You must know

I don't know

No?

They love what you're doing

They-they see it as a way to establish a clandestine, uh,

surveillance network in the West

Your cemeteries

Why do you think they're investing so much in GraveTech?

Not because you're some hot shit salesman, believe me

The bones? Skeletons?

That's how they do it

Eventually, it'll be part of every healthy

living human being For now, just, just dead ones

Those electronic bone nodes, you faked them

Who told you that?

Wait,

let me think

Was he Chinese?

- Maybe - Ha Yeah

Dr Zhao

You know Becca's radiologist?

He's well-known in the local hacker world

Smooth talker

And you fell for it?

- It looked pretty convincing - Yeah, it should

It would have had all the computing and-and brainpower

of Shining Cloth Technologies behind it

What?

Dr Rory Zhao is a

is-is-is an operative for Shining Cloth

Needless to say, the Chinese government

No way

Way

And Dr Eckler?

He got paid a lot of Chinese money to

I-I hate to say it, to experiment on, on,

on certain of his patients

Becca Fuck

Under Zhao's guidance

It's no accident that Eckler left the country

He-he-he's got a fucking target on his back

How do you know they're after you?

What would they want from you?

Jesus What?

They kidnapped me and tortured me

They want me to become a mole in the, in the Russian operation

that hired me, and I said I would,

but there is no Russian operation

Just a Just a fucking coincidence

I don't know how to get them off my back

Uh,

I'm thinking I'll leave the country too

Where would you go?

Iceland, probably

To join Eckler?

We wouldn't have anything to say to each other

Except, "Hey, we fucked sisters, didn't we?

Does that make us brothers?"

Maury's insane

A complete lunatic

I didn't believe a thing he said

But the missing fingers?

He lost them in shop class in high school

Making a birdhouse You never noticed?

I never did

Well, he's good at hiding them

It embarrasses him

Sometimes he does the, you know,

missing fingers trick at kids' birthday parties

If he's drunk enough

It doesn't even make sense

The fingers, it's a Yakuza thing

Japanese, not Chinese

Yeah, well, Maury's an equal opportunity conspirator

Plus, he gets confused very easily

So, all delusional

And he did create those node images on Becca's skeleton

For sure

Sex question

Mm My favourite

Conspiracy excites you, sexually

It seems to

Maury is very inventive when it comes to conspiracy

So, how come I threw him out?

Yeah

He's a complete schmuck

We reopen tomorrow

Looks perfect

You'd never know

Got my original guys to put it back together

Original guys?

Are they gravediggers or tech guys?

Both

Special squad developed by GraveTech

- Maury was involved - Mm

He wasn't so crazy then

All the tech's working again?

- Should be - Maury gave us our network back

The schmuck

He said he hoped the Chinese would leave him alone

now that they can continue to develop

their devious surveillance techniques

Hm

I think she has a friend visiting her

What? What do you mean?

Well, look

Fresh digging on your side

Huh Except that you're standing right in front of me

Fuck You're right

But maybe it's

Fuck What?

- What, you didn't know? - How's that possible?

I'll have to talk to the team

We had to dig up eight including Becca

Could they have mistakenly buried

one of the seven others here? Makes no sense

Let's see what Becca has to say

Whoa What's happening?

The app is controlling the wrong screen

It's the screen for my plot

The boys must have fucked up the rewiring

Who the fuck is that?

I can't believe it

What? What can't you believe?

- Well, don't you see it? - Don't you know who this is?

Jerry Eckler

Becca's creepy doctor Dr Jerry Eckler

So?

You eat like a little kid

Mm

Want some?

So you've never met him

Becca knew it would bother me so she arranged

for me not to be there in her hospital room

when he was

I ran into him once

when he came in with some interns

A real performer

One of those doctors who thinks he's a stand-up comedian

I barely remember him

Mm

I have some theories

It can't be him

There can't be anyone buried there

It has to be a special virtual creation

by Maury Entrekin designed to torment me

To have one of Becca's lovers displace me?

To lie beside her instead of me?

- Asshole - That was one of my theories

What else could it be?

My guys wouldn't be sneaking a body into my cemetery

And why would they have his body?

And why would Eckler even be dead?

I mean, shot in the head

He does seem to have disappeared

Maybe he never made it to Iceland for that conference

Maybe Maury made that up to cover up something else

What something?

Maybe

Maybe Eckler was assassinated

for his part in the Chinese conspiracy

Worked with that radiologist, was taking money from Russia

Maybe Maury gave him up to them

in exchange for his own miserable life

To them?

Whoever

Yeah

I have another one

Okay, go

The vicious divorce

Eckler's wife hired a hitman

to kill him because of his affair with Becca

Buried him with her as an ironic fuck you

You know Eckler's wife?

She would do something that crazy, that complicated?

Never met her

I guess you could just dig him up

Call your boys He's either there or not there

Like Schrodinger's cat

You can't just go digging

Major red tape

Ground-penetrating radar?

Won't work on corpses wrapped in our shrouds

Okay Then what?

I find somewhere else to get buried

Really? You'd just give that up?

Lying with her for all eternity?

I have another theory for you

Go

I paid to have Eckler killed and had him buried here myself

for what he did to Becca

I gave her to him to have her here

because she betrayed me with him

and I don't want her anymore

Hmm

I think you better fuck me

Quick

Before the buzz of that one wears off

You sure this thing can make it all the way to Budapest?

Karoly and I have made this flight many times

You make one stop at Reykjavik

It's very nice

All your friends will come visit you

when you're buried at GraveTech Budapest

My friends don't all have private planes

Well, I'll get you some new friends that do

You're gonna love Budapest

It won't surprise me if you eventually decided

to live there

I have a beautiful big house

Stay

Does your dog have to go into quarantine?

No Trill's special

Too bad

I was looking forward to being your dog

for a couple of weeks

Darling, you can do that whenever you want

Just let me know

[jet taking off

Soo-min,

this seems incredibly complicated

Almost impossible for a non-Hungarian speaker

Do you really think your government contacts

can get me a legitimate Magyar passport?

Oh, God, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hurt you

But you did

You wanted to hurt me

No, no What do you mean?

You promised to lie beside me in the grave

Your wonderful gadget of a grave,

but look at you

Flying off to another country

But it was you, Becca

You got Jerry Eckler to lie beside you

There was no place for me there

It's not Becca She's dead, remember?

She can't do anything

I was afraid to dig him up

I was afraid

Don't worry, my darling, Kar

Becca understands

And you have me now

And in the end

we'll be together in GraveTech Budapest